​Risk and Compliance services

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Ensuring the ongoing confidentiality, integrity, availability and resilience of processing systems and services is a requirement of the GDPR. Our data protection consultants can help you to achieve this.

When a breach incident occurs, we can provide you with our Cyber Security Incident Response service to help you restore the availability and access to personal data in a timely manner following a technical incident, and track down the likely cause of the breach.

Why Choose 7Safe for GDPR ​requirements?

We help organisations around the world to understand the impact of the GDPR on their business and assess their readiness against the requirements. We create a project framework to ensure compliance and, where appropriate, identify opportunities to use data to improve decision-making and customer experience.

How we can help

The GDPR requires that you have a process for regularly testing, assessing and evaluating the effectiveness of technical and organisational measures for ensuring the "security of the processing”. Our technical services include a highly-skilled penetration testing team to test your system defences and websites for vulnerabilities, carry out exploits in a safe manner, and advise on appropriate mitigation measures to ensure that you can continue to protect personal data.

Along with expert advice, we also have a track record of actually implementing procedures to better manage data protection requirements. This includes establishing and testing the internal procedures needed to ensure timely notification. See our Data Protection Act page for further information.

GDPR

In GDPR data security plays a prominent role

The GDPR imposes stricter obligations

on data processors and controllers in respect of data security when compared to the Directive 95/46/ec. The Regulation also offers guidance on appropriate security standards.

The GDPR adopts specific breach notification guidelines

for the first time. The Directive was silent on the subject of data breach, whereas the GDPR contains a definition of “personal data breach” and notification requirements to both the supervisory authority and affected data subjects.

The GDPR definition of a personal data breach is

This differs from US state data breach laws, for example, which are triggered when data is exposed that can lead to fraud or identity theft, such as financial account information.

Are you preparing for the GDPR?

Experts from PA Consulting can help identify the impact of the GDPR on your organisation and shape, mobilise and deliver transformation programmes to achieve compliance, embed privacy and generate business benefits.

If you would like further information about the GDPR and how to plan for it, get in touch with one of our experts today! Please call +44 (0) 1763 285 510 or email contact@7safe.com

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